Museum of history and culture of Jews of Belarus was founded in 2002 by a group of scientists of enthusiasts headed by the Director of the Museum Inna Pavlovna Gerasimova, with the support of the Union of Belarusian Jewish public associations and communities and the American Jewish joint distribution Committee (JDC) in Belarus. The Museum was opened in the building of the Minsk Jewish community centre street address of Faith school, 28.

Despite its youth, the Museum has managed to collect more than 10 thousand exhibits that tell about the culture, art, religion, history of the Jews in Belarus. It contains unique documents, photographs, objects of everyday life, clothes, books, paintings and many other things. There are unique exhibits: machine for making matzah from Orsha, mug for washing hands, the ticket is dated 1889 and a travel permit from the traits of the Jewish pale of settlement in the remaining territory of the Russian Empire.

The Museum collects and preserving the history and culture of Belarusian Jews, but also conducts active outreach and educational work. Here are people of different ages and nationalities, to learn more about the Jewish people. The Museum collected the death toll of Jews during the Second world war, created a Memory Book.

Permanent expositions of the Museum are divided into sections: the Jews of Belarus XVI – early XX centuries; Belarusian Jews between the wars. 1917 – June 1941; the Holocaust in Belarus. 1941 – 1944; Post-war Jewish life in Belarus; the Revival of Jewish life in the late twentieth century.

During its existence the Museum has conducted more than 35 exhibitions, the themes of some of them: "I'm from the ghetto", "Jewish resistance in Belarus. 1941-1944", "Synagogues of Belarus yesterday and today". The Museum hosts an exhibition of paintings by Jewish artists.